The downhill lie [electronic resource] : a hacker's return to a ruinous sport / Carl Hiaasen.
Ever wonder how to retrieve a sunken golf cart from a snake-infested lake? Or which club in your bag is best suited for combat against a horde of rats? If these and other sporting questions are gnawing at you, The downhill lie, Carl Hiaasen's hilarious confessional about returning to the fairways after a thirty-two-year absence, is definitely the book for you. Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl wisely quit golfing in 1973, when "Richard Nixon was hunkered down like a meth-crazed badger in the White House, Hank Aaron was one dinger shy of Babe Ruth's all-time home run record, and The Who had just released Quadrophenia." But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years--and memories of shanked 7-irons--faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he could as a youth. So gradually he ventured back to the dreaded driving range, this time as the father of a five-year-old son--and also as a grandfather.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415945803 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415945802 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 5:44:25. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 82494 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Hiaasen, Carl. Golfers > United States > Biography. Golf > Humor. |
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